The Sacramento Bee reports that Senator Dianne Fienstein (from San Francisco), wrote Attorney General Eric Holder, asking him to support a bill to ban online gambling. This is the same politician that thinks the Second Amendment should be stripped away, so your right to keep and bear arms would be removed, although she would still be able to keep hers.
Somehow in her weird view of the world, internet gambling is a huge threat to the US, but all those hundreds of thousands of invaders streaming in to the southern US, with their gang members and diseases aren't.
What is wrong with these people? Oh, that's right, she's from San Francisco. Never mind.
California - truly the land of fruits and nuts...
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Sen. Ray Lesniak, D-Union, on Monday announced at the East Coast Gaming
Conference in Atlantic City that he is preparing a bill to allow for
private operation of sports betting at the state’s racetracks and
casinos - threatening to call the bluff of the federal government
regarding sports betting, .
Lesniak spearheaded legalization of online gaming in the state as well as its challenge of a federal law now negating the state’s sports betting law. He said he will move forward on the bill in the Legislature should the U.S. Supreme Court decline to hear the state’s case next month.
“Right now, book your hotel room [in Atlantic City]] for the Super Bowl next year and the NCAA Final Four, because you won’t be able to get one,” Lesniak declared. “We are going to have sports betting in New Jersey next year. Go to the bank on it, because if the [Supreme Court takes the case], it will be overturned.
“And if it isn’t, it’s the position of the Justice Department in their briefs that they are not stopping states,” but telling those states they’re free to stop preventing such betting without officially sponsoring it, he added. “I have legislation being drafted, and that will be introduced, to allow casinos and racetracks to have sports betting on our premises. We just won’t be able to regulate it. We pushed the envelope with internet gaming, and we will push the envelope on sports betting. And we are not going to be deterred.”
The U.S. Department of Justice is defending the legality of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA) that bars state-sponsored betting in all but four states. Last week it reiterated its contention that the law is not unconstitutional because it merely prevents the sort of state-sponsored sports betting that New Jersey’s current state law is meant to offer.
The federal government and the NCAA, the NFL, and three other professional sports leagues last year prevailed at the U.S. District Court and Third Circuit Court of Appeals levels. That has led Governor Christie to make a final appeal for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case — a decision that likely would be made next month.
But Lesniak’s bill would keep the issue on the front-burner even if the nation’s highest court declines to hear the case.
At the Third Circuit court in Philadelphia last June, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman argued the federal government’s case. Fishman, stressing the point that the PASPA law is not an example of prohibited “commandeering” of state conduct, noted that New Jersey officials could, if they chose to, announce that the state would no longer enforce its sports betting laws.
“It would be a really, really bad idea,” Fishman said, but it would not be prohibited by the 1992 sports betting law that allows only Nevada and three other states to offer sports betting.
The Department of Justice’s most recent filing contends that even if the court questioned the federal law’s prohibition against sports betting, that law also prohibits private operators from offering such gambling. The state has countered that if the main provision is not legitimate, the entire law may need to be struck down.
Meanwhile, New Jersey’s somewhat uneven results for online gaming since it was legalized last November was defended by numerous industry experts.
Richard Schuetz, chairman of the Caifornia Gambling Control Commission, said that criticism of the state’s results was like parents complaining that their 5-month-old baby “doesn’t speak any languages.”
Gaming law attorney Jeff Ifrah later continued the theme: “This baby is walking and talking, and is going be doing that very well for the rest of its life.”
Borgata CEO Tom Ballance said that New Jersey’s nine-month journey from legalization to going live with online gaming is “like trying to paint an airplane while it’s flying.”
State Division of Gaming Enforcement Director David Rebuck said: “Internet gaming exists in all 50 states. It’s just unregulated” in 47 of them, with only New Jersey, Nevada and Delaware offering a legal version of the betting.
Email: brennan@northjersey.com Blog: northjersey.com/brennan
Lesniak spearheaded legalization of online gaming in the state as well as its challenge of a federal law now negating the state’s sports betting law. He said he will move forward on the bill in the Legislature should the U.S. Supreme Court decline to hear the state’s case next month.
“Right now, book your hotel room [in Atlantic City]] for the Super Bowl next year and the NCAA Final Four, because you won’t be able to get one,” Lesniak declared. “We are going to have sports betting in New Jersey next year. Go to the bank on it, because if the [Supreme Court takes the case], it will be overturned.
“And if it isn’t, it’s the position of the Justice Department in their briefs that they are not stopping states,” but telling those states they’re free to stop preventing such betting without officially sponsoring it, he added. “I have legislation being drafted, and that will be introduced, to allow casinos and racetracks to have sports betting on our premises. We just won’t be able to regulate it. We pushed the envelope with internet gaming, and we will push the envelope on sports betting. And we are not going to be deterred.”
The U.S. Department of Justice is defending the legality of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA) that bars state-sponsored betting in all but four states. Last week it reiterated its contention that the law is not unconstitutional because it merely prevents the sort of state-sponsored sports betting that New Jersey’s current state law is meant to offer.
The federal government and the NCAA, the NFL, and three other professional sports leagues last year prevailed at the U.S. District Court and Third Circuit Court of Appeals levels. That has led Governor Christie to make a final appeal for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case — a decision that likely would be made next month.
But Lesniak’s bill would keep the issue on the front-burner even if the nation’s highest court declines to hear the case.
At the Third Circuit court in Philadelphia last June, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman argued the federal government’s case. Fishman, stressing the point that the PASPA law is not an example of prohibited “commandeering” of state conduct, noted that New Jersey officials could, if they chose to, announce that the state would no longer enforce its sports betting laws.
“It would be a really, really bad idea,” Fishman said, but it would not be prohibited by the 1992 sports betting law that allows only Nevada and three other states to offer sports betting.
The Department of Justice’s most recent filing contends that even if the court questioned the federal law’s prohibition against sports betting, that law also prohibits private operators from offering such gambling. The state has countered that if the main provision is not legitimate, the entire law may need to be struck down.
Meanwhile, New Jersey’s somewhat uneven results for online gaming since it was legalized last November was defended by numerous industry experts.
Richard Schuetz, chairman of the Caifornia Gambling Control Commission, said that criticism of the state’s results was like parents complaining that their 5-month-old baby “doesn’t speak any languages.”
Gaming law attorney Jeff Ifrah later continued the theme: “This baby is walking and talking, and is going be doing that very well for the rest of its life.”
Borgata CEO Tom Ballance said that New Jersey’s nine-month journey from legalization to going live with online gaming is “like trying to paint an airplane while it’s flying.”
State Division of Gaming Enforcement Director David Rebuck said: “Internet gaming exists in all 50 states. It’s just unregulated” in 47 of them, with only New Jersey, Nevada and Delaware offering a legal version of the betting.
Email: brennan@northjersey.com Blog: northjersey.com/brennan
